The details just keep rolling in

In detailing Mike Price's behavior at a Florida strip club, Sports Illustrated reports that the recently fired Alabama football coach told a stripper she was "the most beautiful women he'd ever seen."

Even in April, the man was recruiting.

Out this week, the magazine reports the married coach had sex with two women in his hotel room, with the women yelling "Roll Tide!" and Price yelling "It's rolling, baby, it's rolling!"

Price told The Birmingham News that the S.I. story is "an absolute lie."

But then he also told the newspaper he was too drunk to know what happened at the topless bar.

It's another case of "They said, he said."

When did sports news make you feel so scummy? Let's move on.

WAIT, ONE MORE: The new artificial turf up at the University of Wisconsin football stadium and training facility will cost $725,000. If it was at Alabama, that could cover 725 strippers ordering room service from Price's hotel room.

OUT OF THERE: The Wizards' decision to cut ties with Michael Jordan, their team president of basketball operations, was reportedly based on player dissension and a crumbling team structure. So, yes, Chicago, John Paxson was the right choice.

BAD MEMORIES: The NCAA will announce Thursday the findings from the former Michigan Wolverines booster scandal investigation. Unless they try to call a timeout.

SO CLOSE: The Cubs' loss Tuesday to the Milwaukee Brewers was delayed in the bottom of the ninth when the Wrigley Field lights flickered, then dimmed, but the lights came up and the game resumed just before the Barry White music kicked in.

CHANGE OF PACE: New Orleans GM Jeff Bower will leave the NBA team to become an assistant basketball coach at Penn State. He also turned in his luxury sedan for a unicycle.

MASTERS OF THE OBVIOUS: The IOC's ethics commission wants Iraq's Olympic committee replaced by a group with no links to torture and other abuses that took place under Saddam Hussein. Took a whole commission to decide that, did it?

BYE-BYE BIRDIE: Experts said Ozzy the osprey, the bird that died after being intentionally drilled by Cubs prospect Jae-kuk Ryu, probably would have died eventually from another illness. Ryu is arraigned June 26. Court TV and Animal Planet can bid for broadcast rights.

OTHER DEVELOPMENTS: Bird watchers say another male bird moved into the nest with Harriet, Ozzy's widow, and their chicks appear to be doing well. Well now, that didn't take long.

COMMON GROUND: NBA owners and players made some headway in talks on a new collective bargaining agreement: Both sides decided that Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has got to start dressing a little nicer for playoff games.

SHAQ'S A SQUIRT: There is an 18-year-old Russian NBA prospect out there named Pavel Podkolzin who is 7-foot-4 and 300 pounds. He'd make a nice small forward for NBA rookie and 7-foot-5,

296-pound center Yao Ming.

BASES COVERED: ESPN Regional Television will own and operate the Ft. Worth Bowl pitting a Conference USA team against a Big 12 team. ESPN News can cover it, ESPN Zone can cater it, ESPN2 can counter-program with bowling, ESPN Original Programming can make a movie about it, and ESPN Classic can replay it the next day.